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Combined Approach to Global Health Can Save Lives at Lower Cost

Analysis of Kenya Study Shows Simultaneously Confronting HIV/AIDS, Malaria, and Waterborne Illness Improves Health
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Do patients pay when they leave against medical advice?

Study examines misconceptions of who picks up tab when patients walk out...
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WHO to issue guidance on hormonal contraceptives and HIV

Current WHO guidelines call on health service providers to remind patients, that neither hormonal contraceptives nor intrauterine devices known as IUDs offer protection against HIV or other sexually transmitted infections....
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We are getting fatter, whichever way we look

We are getting fatter - no matter which way we look at it, a Deakin University analysis of two popular obesity testing methods has found....
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Dog attacks can be avoided with care

In the midst of another spate of dog attacks against small children, La Trobe University academic Dr Pauleen Bennett has called for community calm....
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What Patients Talk About When They Talk About Doctors

UCSF Analysis of Online Physician Reviews on Yelp and RateMDs Shows Patients Generally Rate Doctors Positively, But Care About More than Just Healthcare...
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Malaria kills more than 1.2 million worldwide – nearly twice as many as previously thought

Head of UQ’s School of Population Health, Dr Alan Lopez, says malaria is killing more people worldwide than previously thought....
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Survey finds public support for randomised medicine studies

Studies of the effectiveness and safety of prescription medicines in Scotland that randomise prescribing policy in different GP practices are broadly supported by the general public, a survey carried out for the University of Dundee has found....
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Every second can make difference between life and death, says evacuation expert

In an emergency evacuation such as the one faced by passengers on the Costa Concordia cruise ship, every second counts and can make the difference between life and death....
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